Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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I can't stand on a podium and beat my chest saying I'm the best. I just think I've been the luckiest of all. Yes, I'm talented. The movies that I've chosen and the way they've fared have also helped. I've always done films I would love to watch. I have stayed away from films which I thought were depressing.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.
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The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is showing too little empathy for the person who's very worried about the refugee ban. They're not spending enough time with each other to have a meaningful conversation.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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Some moments before you are aware of what you will do next - a time in which you subjectively appear to have complete freedom to behave however you please - your brain has already determined what you will do. You then become conscious of this 'decision' and believe that you are in the process of making it.
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I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.
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Everything Paul Kossoff did came from his fingers and went right into the amp. He was his own effects unit.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.
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I need an army. I need people out there who are either preaching with me to different audiences that I can't get to or who are implementing the work and helping people actually learn their why or practice their why or implement their why because I don't do that.
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My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.
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Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.
